06
2015
Owner could go to jail for not reporting worker’s injury
Weekly Safety Tip: Keep injury and illness Records. Report severe work-related injuries and illnesses to OSHA. The owner of a construction company could go to jail for not reporting an employee’s foot injury that resulted in an amputation. Harry Minassian of Granada Hills, CA, faces four felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud for failing to report the injury. Minassian owns Pacific Construction. An employee…
02
2015
7 tips to ensure that a close call doesn’t become something worse
Are employees at your site encouraged to report near misses? Do you share lessons learned from these close calls to prevent actual incidents? Read on to find out why, and how, you should be doing this. According to the National Safety Council (NSC), a near miss is an unplanned event that did not result in an injury, illness, or damage. But it could have. “Only…
01
2015
Modern Issues of First Aid Training
Timing and Content Issues When is training provided? For new employees? Once a year? Increase it to include special needs, too. Try to avoid marathon training to get everything done at once and have smaller, more manageable sessions that employees can remember and use. Is your first aid specifically for your workplace or general in nature? Do you have AEDs on site? Are they all…
30
2015
27
2015OSHA’s FREE WORKPLACE POSTER
Go to this website to download your free OSHA poster today: https://www.osha.gov/Publications/poster.html Job Safety and Health: It’s the Law ♦ What is the OSHA poster and why do I need it? The OSHA Job Safety and Health: It’s the Law poster, available for free from OSHA, informs workers of their rights under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. All covered employers are required to display…
26
2015
Safety Goes Beyond at Merrillville Expo
MERRILLVILLE–An OSHA 30 instructor for the Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters, Jennifer Jakubielski was intrigued Wednesday by a saw that stops automatically upon contact with skin. She said carpenters use table saws and it’s not uncommon for some of them to remove the guards for convenience sake, a move that could result in injuries to the fingers and hand. “I urge my students…
25
2015
5 steps to boost safety and avoid OSHA citations
You’re doing all you can to improve employee training, awareness, and engagement. But are these the things that are really going to bring your incident numbers down? Keep reading to learn what an occupational safety and health lawyer recommends. Attorney Valerie Butera, an OSHA specialist with the national law firm Epstein Becker Green, notes that while it’s impossible to mitigate against every conceivable workplace hazard,…
24
2015
McDonald’s Burns Prompt Investigation
According to a BBC News report, OSHA officials have launched an investigation into McDonald’s after 28 employees in 19 different cities said they suffered injuries due to hazardous equipment and poor safety standards. Some workers have said they had been told to treat their injuries with condiments, such as mustard and mayonnaise, rather than medical cream. The company could potentially face fines of up to…
19
2015
Making Safety Count: Effective Training for the Workplace
Too often and for too many employees, mandatory training is seen as a bother or inconvenience that disrupts a busy workday and results in work piling up. At the end of the training, the employee downloads the digital certification, turns it in and gets back to the job at hand. But what if the training is on workplace safety? Do we really want…
18
2015
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Recalled for Possible Metal Pieces
Kraft Foods Group is voluntarily recalling approximately 242,000 cases of select code dates and manufacturing codes of its Original flavor of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner due to the possibility that some boxes may contain small pieces of metal. The recalled product is limited to the 7.25-oz. size of the Original flavor of boxed dinner with the “Best When Used By” dates of Sept. 18,…